Republicans seized on the victory of Karen Handel in a special election in Georgia on Tuesday night, vowing to push through a vote on a revised healthcare plan as early as next week.
When the astonishingly bad health plan is finally made public and people watch their parents, children, siblings and friends be denied health care, and when they experience the full horror of President Trump's foreign policy, Democrats will win in district after district, if they do the groundwork that is always necessary to win elections.
Tuesday was a triumphant night for Republicans, winning 4 of 5 special elections, including the most expensive House race in USA history.
The special election for the sixth district of Georgia sought replacement of Tom Price - Trump's current Secretary of Health - in the House of Representatives.
Also on Tuesday, a Democratic candidate fell 3 percentage points short of defeating a Republican in the race to fill budget director Mick Mulvaney's House former seat in SC.
President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence released statements congratulating Karen Handel.
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But it was demoralizing for Democrats, who also lost a special election in neighboring SC.
Mathematically, a 4-point loss for a Democratic House candidate in a district that has traditionally elected Republicans by wide margins is an encouraging result for Democrats. The real point is that after Tuesday night, Democrats are right back to where they were in November. Though Ossoff and Handel both said the race was about them, pols and pundits elsewhere made them proxies in a national battle.
Six women have served in Congress representing Georgia as Democrats since 1940, including Rep. Cynthia McKinney, who served several terms in Congress, most recently from 2005-2007, according to Rutgers University's Center for American Women and Politics.
The outcome "better be a wake-up call for Democrats - business as usual isn't working", Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., said over Twitter.
The party has fallen short this year in elections in Kansas and Montana, and it is expected to lose another race on Tuesday in SC.
"It was very important to them to have someone who had relationships in the community, someone with a track record", said Handel about constituents she spoke to.
"I don't want to offend anyone here, but if the Democrats want to start winning..."
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